Love In Toni Morrison's Song Of Solomon

Love is observed throughout Song of Solomon in various ways: the character relationships between Ruth and her father, Macon Dead and his keys, Milkman and Hagar, Milkman and Guitar, and Corinthians and Porter. Each relationship showed different values of love that one can experience throughout life. Toni Morrison begins Song of Solomon by introducing the Dead family with lost love for each other. Morrison further demonstrates that the love that they had before will never return to its original state because of relationship between the father, Macon Dead, and the mother, Ruth Dead. This relationship is one of the most important element of love in the Dead family to consider because its deteriorating impression will affect many characters throughout …show more content…
When Macon Dead’s son, Milkman and Hagar became an item, they were both happy together. The relationship did not necessarily have a lot of emotional love compared to physical love. Milkman and Hagar would usually see each other when they decided to have intercourse; this is how their relationship began. If Milkman necessarily loved Hagar as she did to Milkman, he would have married her a long time ago. “There were months when Hagar would not see [Milkman] , and then he’d appear one day and she was all smiles and welcome.” Hagar would still love him because she loved the idea of a relationship with Milkman. Guitar shows love for Milkman through his friendship. Unfortunately, his love and devotion for his radicalistic ideals immensly surpases the love for his best friend over the years of their friendship. When Guitar joined the Seven Days, a racist radical group, Guitar became more and more distrustful for those around, he stopped drinking, and took action on innocent white people. Morrison shows that friendships do not last forever and trust is very hard to find even with somebody you love. Just like Guitar, Macon Dead does not trust the ones he loves, his own sister and his